How to Prepare Award-winning Leek & Celery Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, leek & celery soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Leek & Celery Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Leek & Celery Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook leek & celery soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Leek & Celery Soup:

1. Prepare 1 tbsp vegetable oil, preferably cold-pressed
2. Prepare 1 small onion (I used red onion coz had one spare), chopped
3. Get 1 leek, washed and thinly sliced
4. Make ready 3-4 sticks celery, chopped with leaves set aside for Step 6
5. Get 3 cloves garlic, chopped
6. Take 100 g new potatoes, diced
7. Prepare 1 1/2 litre vegetable stock (I used Marigold powder)
8. Get 2 bay leaves
9. Make ready Salt
10. Prepare Ground black pepper
11. Get 100 ml low-fat crème fraiche

Instructions to make Leek & Celery Soup:

1. Bring the oil to a medium-high heat in a stock pot or large saucepan and fry the onion for 2 minutes, stirring only to avoid sticking.
2. Add the leek and cook for a further 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Stir in the celery, garlic and potato and continue cooking for a further 5 minutes or until the leeks are soft but not browned, stirring occasionally.
4. Add the stock and stir gently but thoroughly. Add the bay leaves, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 25 minutes or until the vegetables are nicely softened, stirring occasionally. Remove the bay leaves.
5. Move the pan off the heat, season to taste, whizz to the desired consistency (or, as I chose to do, leave it unwhizzed) and then stir in the crème fraîche.
6. Return to the heat and quickly bring the soup to piping hot but not boiling point and serve into warmed soup bowls. Garnish with the set-aside celery leaves.
7. Serve with granary bread or crusty rolls - if you’re allowing yourself the carbs!

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